Video: Gibbs writing on his hand now to mock Palin; Update: Photoshop added
posted at 4:11 pm on February 9, 2010 by Allahpundit
Imagine: He thought this joke was so good, he actually prepared it before the presser. MKH is calling him the Dane Cook of politics for ripping off a goof that’s already been done three times by national figures, including Palin herself, but it’s worse than that. The Daily Show did a double hit on it last night, first with Stewart reading off his hand and then Wyatt Cenac reading off his belly, so that’s five times at least. Which makes Gibbs — what? The Carlos Mencia of politics, maybe?
People will complain that this is petty and beneath the dignity of the office, but (a) Gibbs partly redeems himself by winking at the ubiquity of their moronic “hope” and “change” buzzwords, (b) Palin is an Al Qaeda accomplice, so she sort of had it coming, and (c) as we’ve discussed before, the White House press briefing is one of the lamest, most useless spectacles in American politics. How can this be beneath the dignity of an office that has no dignity to begin with? The only time the briefing’s worth watching is when Gibbs is forced to defend something especially stupid that Biden said, or when something bad’s happened in the Middle East that sets Helen Thomas up for a “question” about whether we maybe had it coming. Lacking either of those contingencies, if the guy wants to resort to some hackish partisan Mencia-esque schtick to liven things up, I say go crazy.
Update: Reader Derek kicks things off.
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Move over Leno. Really, these guys just don’t get it. I’m sure this was vetted by his boss and tells me that none of them get it. What a bunch of buffoons.
rjoco1 on February 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM
I think you’re right.
ddrintn on February 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Excellent idea for a skit when she and Glenn Beck co-host SNL!
Of course, the it would be follo9wed by “Live from New York!”
Queen0fCups on February 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM
AWESOME idea! LMAO! Suggested:
Corpsman
57 states
FDR=stock market crash
I, I, I, me, me, me
capitalist piglet on February 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM
msm will think this is soooo funny…
cmsinaz on February 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM
That backwoods stupid gun toting hick quitter
is really in their heads.
Brat on February 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Another awesome idea! LOL
capitalist piglet on February 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM
What teleprompter?
Bishop on February 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM
If you’re going to insult the man, at least spell his name right.
Knucklehead on February 9, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Nope. Not here.
Abby Adams on February 9, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Once again, so beneath the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States which he represents.
She has gotten to them. Go, Sarah!
publiuspen on February 9, 2010 at 4:53 PM
Gibbs once again proves how much of a douche bag he is. I thought they said the adults were in charge now. Moronic behavior like this just shows that they aren’t.
Torch on February 9, 2010 at 4:53 PM
OT…….cloture vote fails in the Senate for Becker…….52-33
Knucklehead on February 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
Allah’s girlfriend has a nice set of puntits.
Maxpower on February 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
i miss tony snow…
cmsinaz on February 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
!!!!!!
Queen0fCups on February 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
Nope, Hot Air has pleasantly morphed into The Daily Palin. All Palin, all the time. It’s a Palin-O-Rama!
Emperor Norton on February 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
.
Pretty sick of you right off the bat. Go away.
ronsfi on February 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
It is quite amusing to see this Dumbo sporting script on his hand that somebody else must have written since he is illiterate.
MaiDee on February 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM
Don’t worry, Obama has threatened recess appointments next week when Congress is out.
Enoxo on February 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM
He is speaking to all 57 states. In America, one of the biggest muslim countries where the police act stupidly and anyone can buy a truck.
Urban Infidel on February 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM
No, that’s just the news. Seriously, they cannot stop talking about Sarah Palin!!
deidre on February 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Here’s who started this trend- Megan Fox.
Let Gibbs try that.
profitsbeard on February 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM
This only makes her MORE of a hero to the working class.
These dolts really don’t know that they’re helping her torpedo their ship!
LOL
HondaV65 on February 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM
You’re right. She read her speech from written prepared remarks. How’s that any different from a teleprompter?
YYZ on February 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Only lame Romney-supporters like yourself.
Norwegian on February 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM
What Palin did was completely unprofessional and will feed directly into the MSM narrative of her being a dim bulb.
txag92 on February 9, 2010 at 4:27
the ratings indicate that it is not a problem…
Desperation shows it’s head again
Sonosam on February 9, 2010 at 4:56 PM
ftfy
upinak on February 9, 2010 at 4:57 PM
He obviously knows his job and his audience. Look at the comment totals.
Lily on February 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM
OMG. This just confirms what I had suspected. There is no work going on in the Whitehouse. Barry, and his creepy henchmen sit around watching TV all day and reading Huffpo.
Why does our administration have time to participate in this kind of B.S.? I couldn’t be more disgusted by these fools.
anniekc on February 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM
You know, if you’re “sick of AllahPundit”, there are a lot of places you could go to avoid him. That didn’t occur to you?
capitalist piglet on February 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM
She doesn’t STUTTER when she moves her hand for any reason. She can’t get made at herself or anyone else when she wrote the wrong lines! She is her own worst enemy, unlike the 100 so backing the POSOTUS and his groupies.
Hmmm I could go on.
upinak on February 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM
EPIC TRUTH!!!
LMAO!!!
Roy Rogers on February 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM
Great news, but this means that 15 Senators (and probably 8 Republicans) didn’t even bother to show up?
They make about quadruple my salary — even before they start taking sweetheart deals from CountryWide and getting lobbyist jobs for their kids and spouses. They get all next week off for what is called, even for the Post Office, “Presidents’ DAY.” They should all be safely snowed in, inside the beltway, and still 15 stiffs can’t be bothered to show up and do their jobs.
OK, it’s out of my system.
For now.
notropis on February 9, 2010 at 4:59 PM
That’s nice. Does “The One” find this kind of unprofessional, childish behavior acceptable? This is a White House Press Secretary acting like this while in an official, public capacity. Gibbs is a punk in a White House full of punks.
RadClown on February 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Ditto. A man of class and intellect.
publiuspen on February 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Gibb’s Hand Says:
____________
/ \
__/ _________/_______________
Have people pull this finger-> \
_____________/__
O’s favorite finger-> \
_______________/
\
________________/
__ \
\____________________________/
WashJeff on February 9, 2010 at 4:26 PM
scorpio9 on February 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM
since most fo the country is being hammered via snow storms and such.. maybe some of them went back to their respective states to see any damage?
upinak on February 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Please, dear Lord, no, not Gibbs…
notropis on February 9, 2010 at 5:01 PM
I hope you’re right. That’s certainly the charitable interpretation.
notropis on February 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Did he start off the presser by saying hello to the “Press Corpse”? Now THAT would have been funny. And terminal, probably.
starboardhelm on February 9, 2010 at 5:03 PM
Palin’s Next speaking event should have a teleprompter on each side of the podium. When they announce her name, she should walk out and cover each teleprompter with a brown paper bag. Than she should say:
“Look Mom, no hands!”
This would be epic hilarious.
portlandon on February 9, 2010 at 5:03 PM
Unbelievable. Juvenile delinquents now ‘leading’ the country.
Gibbs and his buddies are an embarassment to the United States of America. If you want the respect of an office, then you have to act worthy of it.
I have no respect for this regime, at all.
koz on February 9, 2010 at 5:04 PM
Hand-Jobbers.
jawbone on February 9, 2010 at 5:04 PM
Not all that great of news. Fox is stating that Barry is going to be making executive appointments next week when Congress is in recess.
Votes don’t count in Barry’s world except when they’re in his favor.
Knucklehead on February 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM
Sarah is such a threat; really in their heads. Gibbs is such a Big Silly Billy !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNc1yLGPug
Sandybourne on February 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM
The ULTIMATE rope-a-dope.
conservative pilgrim on February 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM
Gibbs’ hand:
“I’m not an idiot”
“My boss is not a socialist”
“You are dumb, baby”
“We won, get over it”
“I have not seen that”
Schadenfreude on February 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM
Anne Compton just did a story on this on ABC radio news.
Cindy Munford on February 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM
Wow! Does Gibbs really want to open Obama up to even more ridicule? Palin has so many things she could choose from if she so desires.
What a dunce. These guys must have flunked out of Alinsky’s School for Radicals.
darwin on February 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM
the dems think that if they continue to mock her that she will go away, but it just endears her to the public even more.
You know what is so awesome, she writes down these few words on her hand for a 45 MINUTE SPEECH!!!. I doubt if the community organizer could do that. I don’t think I could, and I have taken an inummerable amount of speech classes.
AP, here’s an unscientific survey, how many out there will say that in the last year, you have written something on your hand to remember it? I have.
ConservativePartyNow on February 9, 2010 at 5:05 PM
Gibberish is a twit and I would expect no less from a childish twit. But is is fun to envision what he might have written on his palm.
Maybe.. I feel pretty…oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and wise….
SgtRed on February 9, 2010 at 5:06 PM
Ask Team Obama.
ddrintn on February 9, 2010 at 5:06 PM
oh great. Czar Czar’s coming to you live!
upinak on February 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM
The Precedent likes being the object of ridicule. That cheapens the office of the Presidency, which is one of his main objectives.
neurosculptor on February 9, 2010 at 5:08 PM
They may not have been able to get back to Washington if there away last week. Not everyone gets to fly in Nancy’s plane.
Lily on February 9, 2010 at 5:08 PM
This should tell every one that the Libs are scared to death of Palin.They don,t act this way about Huckabee or any other Rep.
thmcbb on February 9, 2010 at 5:08 PM
No.
katy the mean old lady on February 9, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Flaccid.
noblejones on February 9, 2010 at 5:11 PM
I think its great that Gibbs and the other liberal dolts are doing this…
what better way to re-enforce the fact that Sarah Palin has wormed her way into their brains (remember that Star Trek movie where Khan got some weird insect to enter into Enterprise crew members ears and take over control of them?) and she is wacking their asses at will.
She has them by the balls and whenever she feels like it, squeezes hard and laughs. I laugh too… and winch at the thought of it.
PhilipJames on February 9, 2010 at 5:11 PM
Proof that this administration is a bunch of childen. Those who continue keep their blinders on are equally as childish. Like the great line from Tombstone, “It’s like playing with my brother’s children.”
gator70 on February 9, 2010 at 5:12 PM
Anyone remember when Obama’s teleprompter got ahead of him and he couldn’t ad lib … even for a minute while it was corrected? Or the time it repeated a previous speech from someone else and he read it?
Now that is pretty dim witted.
darwin on February 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM
Gibbs was about as clever as rubber dog doo left somewhere at Grandma’s 90th birthday party. I can picture him being the guy with the lampshade on his head at Washington parties.
I wonder how many percentage points were added to the number of independents who dislike this Administration by Gibbs’ sophomoric stunt.
Liam on February 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM
Gibbs and Biden should swap – wouldn’t really make much difference but might be a fun change of scene.
RINO in Name Only on February 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM
White House begging for a Facebook smackdown from the Cuda
chief on February 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM
If Obama had any balls which I’m sure he doesn’t, he would fire this coke bottled geek today.
Hummer53 on February 9, 2010 at 5:16 PM
It’s like he never means what he says.
the_nile on February 9, 2010 at 5:16 PM
I know they say “The Children shall lead” but this is rediculous…
CynicalOptimist on February 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM
You sound like another yahoo who has never done any public speaking. Speaking involves a lot more than concepts and it’s easy to get lost if you don’t have some key notes to help you plot the way through your speech.
docdave on February 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM
Don’t forget the time with the Irish Prime Minister when the Indonesian imbecile thanked himself. That was truly unprecedented.
“First, I’d like to say thank you to President Obama!” said President Obama, who went on to remark that Guinness “tastes different in Ireland” – despite the fact that he has never travelled to the country. Cowen also followed the wrong script and spent 20 seconds reciting the exact speech that Obama had just given before stopping, turning to the President and saying: “that’s your speech!”
neurosculptor on February 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM
Bush =
BadHITLER!Inherited
TransparencyAdults in ChargeClose GitmoHope & ChangeWafflesPUPPY!
Haiku Guy on February 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM
What’s next from Gibbs? Fake Vomit? A whoopee cushion in Jake Tapper’s chair?
rockmom on February 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM
Pillsbury D’Oh-Boy’s
Jackassery knows no bounds…
Must be ‘Pubbie Plant.
Falling Poll Numbers
Will, from now on, be known as
Approval Poll Change.
Haiku Guy on February 9, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Gitmo
Cap’n'tax
Kennedy’s seat
Obama”Care”
Unprecedented
the_nile on February 9, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Kudos Derek for the shopped Gibbs hand.
Funny stuff!
OxyCon on February 9, 2010 at 5:23 PM
Maybe Gibbs can next go after Megan Fox for using a body double in her Motorola Supper Bowl ad. Seems she has a genetic ‘imperfection’ with her right thumb.
That would be par for this White House.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzz-log-megan-fox-thumb.html
Liam on February 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM
See what was on that hand?
“Use this hand to spank the monkey”
right2bright on February 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM
He already tried this, but he put it on Helen Thomas’s seat, and no one noticed…
Romeo13 on February 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM
Gibb’s palm list:
Kiss the Presidents ass
Tell him he’s wonderful
Tell him he’s really smart
Buy new knee pads
darwin on February 9, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Most people who get sick of their host leave. Perhaps you should too.
Rod on February 9, 2010 at 5:27 PM
Yup. One can understand the dried up cadaver, Andrea Mitchell, going for some brownie points with the nutroots, but the WH spoksperson? What a cringer.
It goes to show how seriously they take the responsibility of running the country. Not to mention how silly and petty they appear obsessing over this a mother of five.
Looks like Sarah’s got all their feathers ruffled. Now that’s funny.
RepubChica on February 9, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Next she should draw a picture of a teleprompter on her hand.
barnone on February 9, 2010 at 5:31 PM
lol … and it’s true, she does look like that.
darwin on February 9, 2010 at 5:32 PM
“This is the hand that I fist with”
“This is the hand that i eat with”
/Gibbs
ted c on February 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM
Sarah should challenge Obama to give a speech without his teleprompter, only with notes that he can write on his hand. How about at his health care summit with? the GOP?
My idea for a Saturday Night Live skit would be one where the teleprompter is attached to Obama.
4of8 on February 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM
hehe!
+2
ted c on February 9, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Sarah is HOTUS…
Hand Of The United States.
Gibbs is FOTUS….
Fister of the…
ted c on February 9, 2010 at 5:37 PM
I know this is false. If Gibbs wrote anything at all on his hand it would be “left” on one, and “right” on the other; And he probably gets that mixed up.
He’s such a scientist. Why doesn’t MIT give him an honorary PhD?
Cybergeezer on February 9, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Here is my photoshop of Obama’s “Crib Notes”
RushBaby on February 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Allah should back off Carlos Mencia. First, all comedy is stolen. Watch the taped interviews of Eddie Murphy saying that he mimicked Cosby and Arsenio mimicked Richard Prior.
Second – Joe Rogan and George Lopez are iceholes. I was at the next table over from Rogan at a restaurant in Santa Monica a couple of years ago and he was in my line of sight. He spent the entire meal preening and telling his friend how people were going to mob him for autographs at any moment. Those two haven’t done enough in comedy to gripe about anything.
Kaisersoze on February 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Barrack could write his complete health care bill on one hand. Without scribbling a single letter.
Cybergeezer on February 9, 2010 at 5:40 PM
Nope. Palin’s not on their minds. Nope. Not much at all.
kingsjester on February 9, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Not really sure but I think YYaZooh here is trying to insinuate that conservative concepts and ideals are simple because they’re for the simple-minded.
It’s rather an ironic statement considering it offers nothing more than proof that the one making it is the simple-minded one.
Rod on February 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Take note that they do not have much to say about what she said. I saw on another site that Politico had an article about the lack of alternative program specifics in her speech. They said she just zinger soundbites and lacks substance. Obviously they have not read her Facebook articles. Center of bullseye every single time without surrounding babble. All I could think of with Andrea Mitchell’s rant today was “elderly jealous cheerleader syndrome.” I have written notes on my hands for over 50 years – especially good for near term important and urgent information – if you do not get it done soon you wash it away.
Gandalf on February 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM
that photoshop forgot “unprecedented” and “unexpectedly”
vermillionsky on February 9, 2010 at 5:46 PM
Blog intro photo looked like he had hair on his palms…just sayin’
enoughalready on February 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM
Thread-winner.
crr6 on February 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM
Interesting that TROLLS like CRR comment more on this than the Governments failure in regard to the Christmas day terror bomber or Ft. Hood. Screw you CRR.
CWforFreedom on February 9, 2010 at 5:50 PM
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